Geoffery chaucer
Geoffery chaucerIn Todays writing, writers conform to the readers wants and needs,
contrary to the writers of the 13th and 14th centuries. In these times
writers wrote from the heart not from the pocket book. They wrote on
their beliefs and morals and dreams. But never did they judge. Their
styles taken from their trials and tribulations. As so in Geoffery
Chaucers works he used his life experiences to influence his every
word.
Geoggrey Chaucer is the first literly personality in English, and we
know more about the outline of his life than we do about Shakespeare’s.
His inner life is recorded in his poems, and he liked to put himself as a
character into them. From his birth to his death his writing was not
appreciated, but as they say some writers are hated in life and praised in
death.
Today man understands his physical surroundings more fully than
did his medieval ancestor, today that is not the case. Today man is able
to take percautions against many of the dangers which face him. Fears
of that sort, exceedingly violent in themselves, bred a species of
violence in the medieval mind. So in the writings of the times this
eminent fear was a influence of writing for all.
Though Chacuer was an amazing writer most of his life is
fragmentary, but there is a lot of it. A lot of people's lives back then
were difficult to document. He was an extraordinary man, a great poet
who was courtier, soldier, learned man, much travelled minor diplomat.
The range of his experience and interests is amazing, from common life
and bawedy talkes to puritanical religion.
He knew an assortion of people of all backgrounds from French to
Flemish. His attitudes ranged from sentimental feeling for small
children, to a deep inerest in love. Chaucer's age has never been
determinded for sure but has been speculated by the finding of a receat
from a tailor, when Chaucer was being fitted for a uniform for work,
meaning he would have had to have been between the ages of 13 and
18. This placing his birth between the years 1340-1344 in London, the
son of John Chaucer a vintner. In 14th century London there were three
elementary schools of good "academic" standing which were attended
by the sons of the higher class. And wedo know that Geoffery Chaucer
attended one of those schools before continuing his education in a much
higher enviroment. All three schools offered the same curriculum more
or less: reading, religion, Latin, French, and arithmetic, and maybe
even some science courses. Chaucer shows this in all of his mature
work of being extraordinarily well read and of having many wide and
deep intellectual interests.
Another obvious influence on Chaucers writings was his city itself.
With the crooked narrow...
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